Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda) claimed victory in the British Grand Prix of Moto3 disputed in Silverstone and benefited from the falls of the Spaniards Sergio García Dols and Izan Guevara, both on GasGas paths, to cut their advantage in the provisional world classification by 25 points.
Although the championship remains the same, with Sergio García Dols leading and Izan Guevara second, the winner at Silverstone is now 42 points behind the first and 39 behind the second.
Although the young Brazilian rider Diogo Moreira (KTM) withstood the pressure well at the start, in just two corners the Spanish Izan Guevara (GasGas) positioned the bike very well to establish himself in the lead, although the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka was also behind him (KTM), who looked for his opportunity to lead and between the three began to exchange at the head of the test, which was also agreed in the third set by the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM).
An intense start that heralded a great fight at the head of the race, with the leader, the Spanish Sergio García Dols (GasGas)who made up a position on that opening lap, but in reality all the leading riders formed a tight group of numerous riders in which it did not seem that any one could gain enough of an advantage to break away alone.
Öncü led that initial lap but on the next Izan Guevara regained first place to change the pace and start pulling hard to try to break the group, in which the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) was the one pulling to try to stop the aspirations of the Spaniard, pursued by Öncü, the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda) and the Brazilian Moreira.
Sergio García Dols was somewhat cut off in a second group, which also included David Muñoz (KTM), who had to comply with a long lap penalty that made him lose five positions, Iván Ortolá (KTM) and Daniel Holgado (KTM ), among others.
Guevara did not achieve his initial objective by sticking to him “like a limpet”, the Turkish Öncü and after them up to eleven more pilots, with a small space with seven other pilots, among whom were all the favorites, including the Spanish Jaume Masiá (KTM), who started twenty-first, or the Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda), who at times also led the race, although the GasGas rider did not take long to regain first place.
on the sixth lap Dennis Foggia returned to command the race -although Izan Guevara was the first to cross the finish line in that lap-, but with all his rivals very aware of his evolution, to avoid surprises and that he could get a few unrecoverable meters ahead.
Up to twenty-one riders could be counted in the leading group, which with the passing of the laps saw how more than one tried “strength” in the head to gauge the response of his rivals, which foreshadowed that the fight for victory was going to reach the last lap without a clear candidate.
Guevara’s leadership, who fell to ninth position, was succeeded by Deniz Öncü and then by Dennis Foggia, but the differences in the leading group were practically non-existent and with Foggia’s “pull”, he jumped from behind Jaume Masiá to hunt him down and avoid victory alone.
Behind, another Spaniard, Iván Ortolá (KTM) became the protagonist of the race by coming back from eighteenth position and setting a new absolute record for the circuit (2:10.805), even faster than the “pole position” (2: 10,951), which took him to the leading group.
Nothing was decided with four laps to go, although Dennis Foggia was the one who was trying to set the pace at all times, with his teammate Tatsuki Suzuki as a faithful squire, but also waiting for his opportunity to “turn the wheel” and seek victory.
A little more than two laps from the end, Iván Ortolá took the lead, although he could not hold out first when Deniz Öncü overtook him, while in that leading group the first incident occurred, when the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki took the world leader in the turn thirteen, with a monumental disgust for Sergio García Dols, who was thus left without the possibility of defending the leadership of the championship.
Sasaki had to be evacuated on a stretcher, while García Dols was unable to continue in the race.
The incidents did not end there because on the last lapin turn seven, Izan Guevara, who could be placed in the lead, touched Iván Ortolá’s bike from behind, who had to open up his trajectory by entering that curve too “cold”, and both went to the ground, as well as little later, albeit alone, David Muñoz.
In the end Dennis Foggia won, ahead of Jaume Masiá, who climbed from twenty-first to second position, with Deniz Öncü third.
The Brazilian Diogo Moreira, author of the pole position finished sixth, with Carlos Tatay (CFMoto) tenth, ahead of Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), with Adrián Fernández (KTM), fifteenth, Marc García (KTM), twenty-second and Ana Carrasco (KTM), twenty-third.